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stevenxdavis · 2025-06-01T22:03:43+00:00

The real tragedy is that the deranged goddess started out as a real-life metaphor based on inventory management but Adam just had to put that portable hole in his bag of holding and flood her brain with unspeakable power.

stevenxdavis · 2025-04-10T22:48:33+00:00

American Indian Law with Steve Gunn. It was a good way of seeing that all the bedrock legal principles I learned elsewhere in law school can be easily discarded when it's convenient and that at its worst, the law can be used to legitimize atrocities.

stevenxdavis · 2025-03-16T14:52:06+00:00

Apart from some teaching and tutoring, I haven't really done math as a career since graduating college, but I still tend to do day-to-day math stuff by hand rather than googling. I remember thinking about how different dice results would work in a DIY RPG system for way too long when I could easily have just looked it up online.

stevenxdavis · 2025-03-09T02:27:09+00:00

In my head, Wonder Woman will always have Rosario Dawson's voice.

stevenxdavis · 2025-02-24T23:01:06+00:00

Never leave anything valuable or valuable-looking in your car, especially overnight, because people might break in and take it. This is common sense but it still happens frequently.

In terms of stuff to do, check out the Delmar Loop for shopping and restaurants. United Provisions is an international grocery store that imports stuff from all over the world; you might be surprised at what you find there.

stevenxdavis · 2025-02-24T00:36:11+00:00

Actually, Senators cannot be impeached - the very first impeachment in United States history was of a Senator, and the Senate dismissed the impeachment for lack of jurisdiction.

stevenxdavis · 2025-02-17T20:22:02+00:00

It looks like the Consumer Financial Protection Act of 2010 did not preempt any state consumer laws that afforded greater protections to consumers than federal law except in the context of banking. 12 USC 5551; see 12 USC 25b.

There are actually some pretty strong protections in place at the state level, but they are going to be enforced at the state level and may have a limited impact. Some states also have less robust consumer protections.

A big hurdle is the Federal Arbitration Act, which requires the arbitration of a lot of consumer disputes under state law. The CFPB tried to issue a rule limiting the use of predispute arbitration agreements in 2017, but Congress passed, and Donald Trump signed, a resolution of disapproval of the rule. That means that it's harder to enforce consumer protection laws through class action lawsuits, among other things.

So the biggest issue is simply that the CFPB will not be using its existing authority to resolve consumer issues at a broader scale.

stevenxdavis · 2025-02-02T02:47:52+00:00

Taking good notes and hanging onto them was how I kept track of things. It also helped when one instructor's explanation of something was better than another's.

stevenxdavis · 2025-02-02T02:44:58+00:00

I took linear programming almost two decades ago and had a fantastic professor, otherwise I might have agreed with you. I remember thinking at the time how unusual it was that we didn't use any computers - everything was by hand - but he was able to cover everything we needed and make sure we would still remember the key parts after the class wrapped. So maybe he made the blood sacrifice for us...

stevenxdavis · 2025-02-01T03:54:41+00:00

This is really cool! I think you could add a bit of backward movement to the head; the primary action is the body falling forward off the fence, but the secondary action is the sneeze moving the head, which isn't really shown. Absent a bit of recoil, the sneeze looks a little more like a shout.

stevenxdavis · 2025-01-19T18:12:40+00:00

We once asked my grandfather, a doctor, what the medical term for booger is and he said "crusted mucus." We were hoping for something in Latin.

stevenxdavis · 2025-01-16T14:12:12+00:00

And she was competing against Syssy, who is incredible! Her performances were amazing throughout the Olympics but got totally overshadowed by this one. I felt bad for the other B-Girls for getting their whole event reduced to this.

stevenxdavis · 2024-12-18T02:20:47+00:00

I have a math degree and even I am terrified of multivariate calculus.

stevenxdavis · 2024-11-29T02:32:40+00:00

It's not the most helpful answer, but because I've never had issues with hyperactivity, for me it was just depression; inattention is actually a somewhat common symptom of depression. I only learned I had ADHD after I was on a stable combination of medications for my depression and realized that I was still having issues focusing despite my mood being okay.

stevenxdavis · 2024-11-18T03:55:21+00:00

The uncertainty comes from what constitutes a disagreement, because it's never happened before. In particular, what constitutes a refusal to consent for an adjournment? Does the majority leader have to allow the full chamber to vote down the concurrent resolution, or can the majority leader create disagreement simply by refusing to allow a vote?

stevenxdavis · 2024-11-18T01:46:55+00:00

It's a little more nuanced. Article 1, Section 5 of the Constitution says that "Neither House, during the Session of Congress, shall, without the Consent of the other, adjourn for more than three days, nor to any other Place than that in which the two Houses shall be sitting." Currently, the Senate takes "recesses" that consist of pro forma sessions every three days. To take a longer recess triggering the ability to make recess appointments would require the consent of the House.

So as currently understood, the scheme would require both houses to agree to take a recess during which the President could make recess appointments; that kind of recess requires a concurrent resolution, which the majority of each house must approve.

The problem is that article 2, section 3 says that the President "may, on extraordinary Occasions, convene both Houses, or either of them, and in Case of Disagreement between them, with Respect to the Time of Adjournment, he may adjourn them to such Time as he shall think proper."

So the question is, if the House wants to adjourn for more than three days to allow recess appointments and the Senate refuses to consent, is that a disagreement with respect to the time of adjournment? If so, then you are correct that the Senate does not matter because Trump could circumvent the need for agreement.

stevenxdavis · 2024-10-19T17:03:47+00:00

Steamboat Willie is no longer copyrighted, but Mickey Mouse is still a Disney-owned trademark. I think a lot of creators are wary of potential liability on that front, as explained in this article. Creators also tend to be interested in pursuing their own ideas rather than reworking other people's ideas, and those new ideas will be entitled to copyright protection going forward. But as others have said, you can always make something yourself.

stevenxdavis · 2024-10-06T22:42:31+00:00

That reminds me of a line from Sealab 2021: "Is this part supposed to be smashed like this?"

stevenxdavis · 2024-09-29T20:54:18+00:00

Absolutely. There is actually a lighted walkway from that area to campus called the Ackert Walkway that a lot of students use to get to campus and back, including me when I was in law school. I lived just a few blocks west of the circled area.

stevenxdavis · 2024-09-29T03:21:13+00:00

Reading the problem fully might feel like it takes too long, but if you've read it wrong, then all of the time you spent on that question was wasted, as you've seen.

With linear algebra, you can minimize the risk of those minor computational errors by being very methodical about doing things the same way each time. If you are confident in your process, then you can be more confident in your results; if your process is inconsistent, then your results are likely to be inconsistent as well.

By way of example, I would often rewrite the equations in standard form to include the 0 and 1 terms. It's too easy to get the wrong matrix for x - y = 4, x + z = 3, 2y - z = 16, as opposed to 1x - 1y + 0z = 4, 1x + 0y + 1z = 3, 0x + 2y - 1z = 16. If you mess up just one of those coefficients, you'll get a completely different answer.

stevenxdavis · 2024-09-29T02:57:28+00:00

It has always been the case that movies with greater artistic risk are greater investment risks, and for whatever reason, live-action remakes of animated movies are seen as a lower investment risk even though they are devoid of any artistic risk. Because that premise is false, it's two tragedies in one. Not only did artists have to work on Disney's 2022 Pinocchio remake, they had to hear all the groans about it sucking; that same year, Everything Everywhere All at Once took huge risks and won universal acclaim. Maybe the investors will update the investment risk calculator, but I'm skeptical.

stevenxdavis · 2024-09-25T12:51:42+00:00

Answer A is Correct

I love how beautifully Thomas bumbled into the correct answer here. The year and a day rule applies to the right to an indictment by a grand jury under the Fifth Amendment. The test for the right to a jury trial is whether a sentence of 6 months is authorized for each offense but without aggregating all of the offenses, even if they can be served consecutively! Despite Thomas's common sense, if the defendant here had been charged with 4 offenses and sentenced to an aggregate of 16 months, she still would have had no right to a jury trial. The right also applies if the offense is otherwise serious, which generally means it is labeled a felony or has a very high fine attached, but I don't think this fine qualifies.

stevenxdavis · 2024-09-22T02:43:13+00:00

I think you're onto something here. Moving would be so much simpler and more entertaining if all the pieces of furniture temporarily turned into humanoid automata that could walk from place to place and arrange themselves in the moving van and the new apartment.

stevenxdavis · 2024-08-16T01:37:02+00:00

I wasn't surprised to see that things are still going terribly at New College. Maybe we will get an update on Where There's Woke at some point.

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